For all you neat and observant beaders, this is a modest mess on my bead board. Although you can see pearls which are indeed left over from a previous project. I sort of pushed them to the side rather then put them away.

Given the angle you may not see that it stands up about 1/2 inch off the surface of the band. It would be a great place for some additional embellishment. Loch Rosen come to mind, but they don't come in gold araum 2x, or at least I don't have any. But if you look real close there are 2 mm gold aurum 2x in between the spines.